As usual, I walked to the shop at the chocolate factory every morning. On Google, it shows that they changed their hours from 9:00 to 2:00 to 7:00 to 2:00. Monday morning, I was able to purchase several items at 7:30 and the man at the store said yes, the hours had changed. On Tuesday morning, Anthony and Rukshana walked with me but the store was not open and a man from the factory said it was not open until 9:00, too late for us visitors to Vaughan Town. The same happened on other mornings when we walked into town before breakfast. On our walks into town, we passed the local Guardia Civil office. And as always, the walk into and out of town was quiet and scenic.
Andreea gave us a lesson in Romanian language. Like Spanish, it is based on Latin, so there were similarities - I believe the Spaniards did a better job with deducing the meanings than we Anglos.
Of course, we had a quemada after dinner Tuesday - these are always fun events. Here is a photo and two short videos showing parts of the ceremony to drive out the evil spirits.
During the entertainment hour, I gave a presentation about volunteering with Habitat for Humanity and the Fuller Center for Housing. Volunteering like that made a good impression on many participants. I sent them to the website for Global Builds with Fuller: https://fullercenter.org/upcoming-trips/
As always, we were all busy with one to ones, telephone sessions, group activities - and a plethora of phrasal verbs and idioms.
Friday we took group photos and had our certificate ceremony. From Grupo Vaughan, Anglos received a nice key chain and a certificate.
From Wednesday until Friday, I solicited and collected gifts for the kitchen and waitstaff - our group was unbelievably generous. We presented the envelope of cash during the tapas luncheon.
And then it was back on the bus to Madrid and points onward - some home, some to travel more, but always remembering out time together. We created a Whatsapp group with many shared photos and continued conversations.
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